Introduction – seeing what is relative This will be more of an introduction on the topic of augmented reality. It will be platform independent, but it may make reference to various types of devices. Basically it is creating a visual experience that is a combination the natural world and digital. The concept of enhancing a visual object, in real time, with detail is the idea behind augmented reality. Its easier to explain with application that to describe it outright. Grocery…
Introduction – There is more to the picture for the eye In the last post we extracted data from images and processed it. In this post we will cover the topic of image manipulation based on external data. This is useful because it allows us to combine data sets into a single point of observation. I’ll go through how to take an image and convert it based on variable conditions. I’ll also cover how to overlay text data into an…
Introduction – processing images with ImageMagick I first posted about ImageMagick in early June, last year. Then late November, I covered the steps to install it and use it on RPi. The features of ImageMagick are fairly extensive, I won’t go into all of them here. As a guide, I recommend Michael Still’s book titled “The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick” through APress publishing. For additional information, you may want to look at Sohail Salehi’s book titled “ImageMagick Tricks” from Packt Publishing. ImageMagick is defined on…
Introduction – It can start with an email In this case, it did. The folks over at Sparkfun sent me product offering email that had an interesting breakout, the FLIR Dev Kit. This is essentially a camera module that senses in the infra red spectrum. They mention some details about the breakout on their website, so go check it out if you want more details. Purpose – They have an app for that…no, seriously they do. A few months back I…